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Italian PM: Big EU countries except Italy against Ukraine candidate status.

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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on May 31 all big European Union countries, apart from Italy, are against giving Ukraine a candidate status. "However, Ukraine's rapid move towards the EU cannot be ruled out. And it seems to me that the European Commission also agrees with this view," he said. A decision on Ukraine's EU candidate status is expected to be raised during the European Council meeting in late June.

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"Last night, Poland's airspace was breached 19 times by drones manufactured in Russia. The assessment of Polish and NATO air forces is that they did not veer off course, but were deliberately targeted," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in a video statement.

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Poland, NATO’s eastern frontline state, is facing its most serious security challenge in decades. Western officials have warned of the risk of a direct confrontation with Russia in the coming years, but are Poland — and NATO — truly prepared for such escalation?

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